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STORM IN INDIANA.C»niiloriib]u JJ:utUkt;e Dono nfc Indkan-apailis ami Vicinity.Inotanapolis, Axig. 20-—A terrible storm of rain and lightning prevailed here yesterday, the city being- floodod, and in many cases business houses and dwellings being surrounded by water and tli© contents of cellars badly damaged.Charles Lynn, L, M, Kimberlavn and John Blackwell, were badly shocked at Olsen’s machine eliup, and for a time it was thought that Lynn had been killed. Several other employes were also shocked, but not so sensibly.Joseph Maudlin, a pressman, was knocked senseless at the corner ot New York street, but is in a fair way to recover.Pogue's run, -which passes through the city from northwest to southeast, was soon out of its banks, and the business houses along its course for a square away were soon surrounded and the cellars full of water. The strewn is very treacherous, and during the afternoon .Fred King and Oliver Eckel, two lads about ten years old. were drawn into a sewer by the flood and drowned. In the northeast part of the city hundreds of houses wore entirely surrounded by water and some of the streets were covered to a depth of four feet.' 'Reports from the surroundingcountry show that the stoiro was general throughoxit the central part of the state.
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Newark Daily Advocate
Newark, Ohio, US
Thu, Aug 20, 1891
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